South Korea had little choice in the matter as it’s effectively a tributary state to the US. What’s amazing is that the US didn’t somehow screw up with South Korea.

Japan’s democracy seems to be a hold-over from its imperialist ambitions from the Meiji restoration, when the emperor took power back from the shogunate and “westernized” to fast-track.

Meaning, the Japanese took all of the trappings of western civilization but under the veneer it’s still distinctly Japanese.

Agile civil development.